Horror/Occult

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  • Book II  of New Tales Of the Vampires: Educated in the Florence of Cosimo de' Medici, trained in knighthood at his father's mountaintop castle, Vittorio inhabits a world of courtly splendor and country pleasures - a world suddenly threatened when his entire family is confronted by an unholy power. In the midst of this upheaval, Vittorio is seduced by the vampire Ursula, the most beautiful of his supernatural enemies. As he sets out in pursuit of vengeance, entering the nightmarish Court of the Ruby Grail, increasingly more enchanted (and confused) by his love for the mysterious Ursula, he finds himself facing demonic adversaries, war and political intrigue.
  • A deranged Gallipoli veteren locked in a padded cell. The grisly deaths of two beautiful young women. An ancient charm in a old metal tin. When journalist Brendan Craft discovers the mysterious Egyptian charm, a series of terrifying events is unleashed. Confronted with evil beyond imagining, Brendan becomes locked in a battle for his sanity. Where does a dream end and reality begin? Death may be the only escape from the voices of evil...Cover art by  Gregory Bridges.
  • Research scientist David Foe was described by his girlfriend as 'the walking dead'. Sent to a less than tropical paradise where the Prime Minister is a despot and his mother a witch, David is forced to wake up a little.  Before long, he's mixing criminals, outdoing the voodoo cults and masterminding a slave result - all in the name of science, of course.
  • Weaveworld: Welcome to the Fugue, a magical land inhabited by descendants of supernatural beings who once shared the earth with humans. The Fugue has been woven into a wondrous, magnificent carpet for protection against those who would destroy it; but as the carpet begins to unravel, battle is joined between good and the particularly repulsive evil forces for control of the Fugue. Title art by Tim White. Cabal: Boone now knew for sure there was no place on this earth for him, no happiness here, not even with Lori. Just as certain as there as no salvation possible for him in Heaven. He would let Hell claim him then, let Death take him there. But Death itself seemed to shrink from him. No wonder, if he had indeed been the monster who had shattered and violated and shredded so many others' lives. And Decker had shown him the proof - the hellish proof of the photographs where the victims were forever still, splayed in the last obscene moment of their torture. Neither Heaven, nor Hell, nor Earth was possible. It could only be Midian then - that awful, legendary place which gathered to itself in its monstrous embrace the half-dead, the Nightbreed. Boone made his way there, not knowing and caring even less. All he wanted was to leave the nightmare behind....but the nightmare had yet to begin... Title art by David Scutt.
  • Andreas's disappearance is a mystery to all, including his inseparable friend Zipp.  But Zipp finds it hard to tell the police the details of when he last saw his friend - they had been shadowing an old woman, an easy target for some quick cash and Andreas, brandishing his knife, had boldly followed her into her house.  And then he was gone.   Inspector Sejer and his colleagues are baffled, but while the confusion in the outside world continues, a chilling, heart-stopping drama is unfolding inside the old woman's home. Appearances aren't always to be believed, and people are not always what they seem.
  • The children were waiting. Waiting for centuries.  Waiting for someone to hear their cries. Now  nine-year-old Christine Lyons has come to live in the  house on the hill -- the house where no children  have lived for fifty years. Now little Christie will  sleep in the old-fashioned nursery on the third  floor. Now Christie's terror will begin...Cover art by John Melo.
  •  Uptown - the depressed Victorian slum area of Monkhampton long overdue for development - is dying: its shopping precinct boarded up, its church abandoned, its people moved away - into thin air, it seems. At the heart of Uptown, in Salvation, an affectionate white Newfoundland recovers slowly from the vicious maltreatment of his previous owner. And as Leader regains his strength, his coats begins to change colour and he grows - and he grows...Detective Inspector Ben Wilson, investigating a strange case of arson in Uptown, is attacked by a pack of dogs turned feral - a pack that behaves like a disciplined army. Then there are the murders...and Wilson begins to see a hideous connection; a link that shatters all the comfortable preconception about domestic pets. If he and the eccentric Professor Harker are correct, man's best friend is now man's most dangerous enemy - and beyond human control. Cover art by Alun Hood.
  • Books I and II of Wicked: Holly Cathers's world shatters when her parents are killed in a terrible accident. Wrenched from her home in San Francisco, she is sent to Seattle to live with her relatives, Aunt Marie-Claire and her twin cousins, Amanda and Nicole. In her new home, Holly's sorrow and grief soon give way to bewilderment at the strange incidents going on around her. Such as how any wish she whispers to her cat seems to come true. Or the way a friend is injured after a freak attack from a vicious falcon. And there's the undeniable, magnetic attraction to a boy Holly barely knows. Holly, Amanda, and Nicole are about to be launched into a dark legacy of witches, secrets, and alliances, where ancient magics yield dangerous results. The girls will assume their roles in an inter-generational feud beyond their wildest imaginations...and in doing so, will attempt to fulfill their shared destiny. Cover art by Sammy Yuen Jr.
  • An exploration of the bizarre and often political terrain of the fascination for witchcraft throughout recorded history. From the rapacious maenads and horned Gods of classical Greek legend to the modern-day practitioners of Wicca, tales of werewolves and vampires, demons and fairies, fairy godmothers and wicked hags, together with the history of the very real human tragedy of the abominable holocaust of the burning times in  Europe, and the heroes who risked torture to speak out against the madness. Merlin, Melusine, Morgan le Fay, the villanous Medea and the heroic Joan of Arc, the hysterical youngsters of Salem and the men and women they accused are among the diverse and infamous characters whose stories are told here. Less well known are the ordinary victims; mainly women - and sometimes men, including Father Gradnier, a priest accused of bewitching a convent - denounced by ignorance and ill-will; and children, as young as four years old. The arts of magic, and the fear of those arts, are timeless and universal and so this exploration  covers all continents and many different forms of witchcraft. Lavishly illustrated with classical paintings, medieval woodcuts and photographs in black and white and colour.